Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Benin and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Crash Course in Science to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Technova. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Rites of Spring,
Anakelly,
Scan 7,
Japan,
CMW,
Rhythm & Sound,
Surgeon,
Banda Bassotti,
The Doobie Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Todd Terry,
Slave,
Yusef Lateef,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jeff Mills,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Average White Band,
Mark Hollis,
Fela Kuti,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Swans,
Deadbeat,
The Gladiators,
Moss Icon,
Lakeside,
Liliput,
Accadde A,
The Wake,
Morten Harket,
Underground Resistance,
Davy DMX,
Duran Duran,
Mary Jane Girls,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Urselle,
Los Fastidios,
Deepchord,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultravox,
Nico,
Intrusion,
10cc,
The Flesh Eaters,
Derrick Morgan,
The Index,
Oblivians,
Metal Thangz,
The Birthday Party,
Niagra,
One Last Wish,
Dawn Penn,
the Slits,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Slits,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pagans,
Deakin,
The Grass Roots,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Excepter,
Infiniti,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.